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The Blog Herald - Oct 8, 2008
Everyone knows that almost any blog post is better with images. However, getting them can be a difficult matter. With a maze of licensing and fair use issues making it hard to decide what is and is not legal to use …
Also tagged: licensing, photos, creative commons, guides, images, picapp, gumgum, photo dropper, semanta
The Blog Herald - Sep 23, 2008
When Patricia Houser reserved the domain name Palintology in early 2007, Sara Palin, the blog’s subject, was the Governor of Alaska and had not risen to national prominence. Houser, who had worked with Palin on her …
Also tagged: intellectual property, guides, domains, domain names, trademark
The Blog Herald - Sep 22, 2008
When Patricia Houser reserved the domain name Palintology in early 2007, Sara Palin, the blog’s subject, was the Governor of Alaska and had not risen to national prominence. Houser, who had worked with Palin on her …
Also tagged: intellectual property, guides, domains, domain names, trademark
The Blog Herald - Sep 2, 2008
A blog post linking to one of my blog posts has been scraped dozens of times. Recently, it was scraped by eight different sites in the same day. The eight trackbacked sites turned out to have a single owner/webmaster …
Also tagged: features, blogging, plagiarism, guides, copyright violation, blog content, blog writing, splogs, splogging, jonathan bailey, content scraping, scrappers, plagiarism today
The Blog Herald - Aug 27, 2008
When it comes to matters of copyright, some companies have an earned reputation as being attack dogs. They are known for filing takedown notices at the drop of a hat, throwing lawsuits around at will and generally …
Also tagged: football, features, disney, nfl, youtube, universal, olympics, riaa, nbc, warner brothers, associated press, mpaa, ioc, viacom, copyright law
The Blog Herald - Aug 26, 2008
When it comes to matters of copyright, some companies have an earned reputation as being attack dogs. They are known for filing takedown notices at the drop of a hat, throwing lawsuits around at will and generally …
Also tagged: football, features, disney, nfl, youtube, universal, olympics, riaa, nbc, warner brothers, associated press, mpaa, ioc, viacom, copyright law
The Blog Herald - Aug 4, 2008
In part one, we discussed the DMCA safe harbor provision as it pertains to bloggers, we looked at the elements of the law, what exactly they said and even the elements that compose a proper DMCA notice. But even …
Also tagged: features, legal, dmca, safe harbor
The Blog Herald - Aug 1, 2008
There are few laws that affect bloggers more directly than the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (PDF) safe harbor provisions. Not only do bloggers use it to secure removal of their works when copied without permission …
The Blog Herald - Aug 1, 2008
A recent article in ABC News paints a fairly grim picture about the current state of blogging. According to the article, as well as the Media Law Resource Center, there have been 159 civil and criminal court actions …
Also tagged: general, features, legal, journalism, ethics
The Blog Herald - Jul 31, 2008
There are few laws that affect bloggers more directly than the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (PDF) safe harbor provisions. Not only do bloggers use it to secure removal of their works when copied without permission …